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On behalf of the government, Justice Minister Judit Varga placed pebbles, flowers and a candle at the Shoes Memorial on the Danube Bank on Thursday, on the Memorial Day of the Hungarian Victims of the Holocaust.

The coronavirus epidemic has compelled the European Union and its Member States to face unprecedented challenges. The usual solutions and conventional approaches have evidently proved to be inadequate, the Justice Minister stressed talking to the Hungarian news agency MTI on Thursday.

“While history has proved us right, Hungary was nonetheless taken to court. This is especially shocking in light of the fact that almost none of the Member States have fully implemented the 2015 ‘quota decisions’,” Justice Minister Judit Varga stated in response to the judgment delivered by the European Court of Justice today.

The COVID-19 pandemic poses an unprecedented challenge to the European Union and its Member States. Ordinary solutions and traditional approaches have manifestly proven inadequate. A number of exceptional measures have been introduced by all the Member States.

The law on the effort to contain the coronavirus will remain in force as long as the state of danger prevails, Justice Minister Judit Varga said on Tuesday evening on the programme ‘Zeit im Bild’ of the Austrian national public service television news channel ORF.

Justice Minister Judit Varga firmly rejected criticisms levelled at the proposed legislation about the containment of the coronavirus epidemic in an opinion piece published on Friday on Politico’s website, highlighting that the “hysterical reaction” to the Hungarian emergency measures is proof of the double standards prevalent in the European Union.